Sales in the Swedish ICA stores rose by 1.8% in August 2014 compared with the corresponding month last year. In like-for-like stores sales increased by 0.9%. +-----------+-----+----------+-------------+---------+----------+-------------+ | | August | January-August 2014 | | | 2014 | | +-----------+-----+----------+-------------+---------+----------+-------------+ |Store | | Change| Change| SEKm| Change| Change| |sales, | SEKm|all stores|like-for-like| |all stores|like-for-like| |excl. VAT | | | | | | | +-----------+-----+----------+-------------+---------+----------+-------------+ |Maxi ICA |2,662| 2.8%| 1.5%| 20,397| 2.7%| 1.8%| |Stormarknad| | | | | | | +-----------+-----+----------+-------------+---------+----------+-------------+ |ICA Kvantum|2,173| 3.8%| 1.3%| 16,586| 3.7%| 1.7%| +-----------+-----+----------+-------------+---------+----------+-------------+ |ICA |2,832| 0.6%| 0.2%| 21,596| 1.3%| 0.7%| |Supermarket| | | | | | | +-----------+-----+----------+-------------+---------+----------+-------------+ |ICA Nära |1,413| -0.3%| 0.6%| 10,632| 0.7%| 1.7%| +-----------+-----+----------+-------------+---------+----------+-------------+ |Total |9,080| 1.8%| 0.9%| 69,211| 2.2%| 1.4%| +-----------+-----+----------+-------------+---------+----------+-------------+ In August 2014, sales in the Swedish ICA stores totalled SEK 9,080 million excluding VAT, which is an increase of 1.8% compared with the same month in the previous year. Sales in January-August 2014 amounted to SEK 69,211 million, an increase of 2.2% compared with the previous year. At 31 August 2014, the number of ICA stores in Sweden was 1,319. Store sales for September will be published on Monday, 8 October 2014 at 08.45 CET. To see all publication dates in 2014, please visit ICA Gruppen’s website http://www.icagruppen.se/en/investor-relations/calendar/. For more information ICA Gruppen press service, Telephone number: +46 10 422 52 52 ICA Gruppen discloses the information provided herein pursuant to the Securities Market Act and/or the Financial Instruments Trading Act. The information was submitted for publication at 08.45 CET on Monday, 8 September 2014. ICA Gruppen AB (publ) is one of the Nordic region’s leading retail companies, with around 2,300 of its own and retailer-owned stores in Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Group includes the retail companies ICA Sweden, ICA Norway and Rimi Baltic, ICA Real Estate, which owns and manages properties and ICA Bank, which offers financial services to Swedish customers. The Group also includes the wholly owned portfolio company inkClub and partly owned portfolio companies Cervera and Hemtex. For more information see icagruppen.se (http://www.icagruppen.se)
Swedish ICA stores – August sales figures
| Source: ICA Gruppen AB